Wash and Stay: ANTONIOLUPI

Italian sanitaryware brand antoniolupi has positioned itself, out on its own, on the experimental and imaginative edge of the high-end bathroom design market. Offering truly striking statement pieces to give any size and style of bathroom that gallery feel.

The Tuscan company is constantly developing new materials and manufacturing techniques, combining specific individual production techniques with collaborations with established designers to offer enviable new product lines with customisation options.

Customers and market specialists have come to expect not only precision quality but product designs quite unique to the market. antoniolupi’s latest 2018 collections meet these expectations without disappointment.

The petite and delicate Indigo tap sits with quiet, serene confidence. Like a small bird primed for flight, Indigo keeps its energy hidden within a slight frame, ready to release its coiled energy in a concentrated water stream, contrary to an unassuming aesthetic.

A dynamic cocktail of geometry, the tap’s form features a clean, flat spout paired with a friendly and welcoming rounded profile. Undoubtedly, however, the feature of the piece is its sculptural control knob. A standard, rounded turn tap has been sliced in half, giving the Indigo an intrepid look it wears so well.

When a standard showerhead design is fixed into the wall in a concealed system, it tends to lose all flexibility; the immovable water stream alone has trouble providing the perfect showering experience for all sizes of user. But where wall-mounted spotlights provide more precise and controlled light than ceiling pendants, the innovative Azimut combines antoniolupi’s high-quality water jet technology with a 180º rotating flexible showerhead.

Perfectly simple and easy to control, the Azimut showerhead uses a snap articulation rack for absolute position precision, keeping the head surprisingly firm, at any desired angle.

The newly released Kosmo showerhead is able to shape water, without containing it. The Italian brand explains how it uses ‘air and the particular arrangement of the nozzles’ to bring water to life. The effect has been likened to bubbles, blown through a child’s toy; a marine jellyfish, moving ethereally between the contours of the current; or to a water fountain, gushing from the centre to create a transparent dome of rejuvenating water.

Through the Kosmo’s pressure controls, the precise shape of the water fountain can be moulded like blown glass, either elongating the ‘jellyfish’ tentacles or joining the dome in a sharp, pointed base, creating a seemingly levitating icicle of water.

antoniolupi’s Lumen is a perfect example of how hydrotherapy and chromotherapy can be combined within the shower enclosure to provide the ultimate relaxation experience. Lumen is a ceiling-recessed, overhead shower characterised by a heart of light with a waterproof remote control.

Inside a concave, stainless steel shell sit four rows of nozzles, stationed delicately to surround a nucleus of light. Naturally positioned towards a central meeting point, the jet stream organically takes on either a relaxing or revitalising light hue, adding an elegant and magical aura to the showering space.

New for 2018, is a larger version of the groundbreaking Meteo shower. This 100 x 75 x 11cm version boasts the same features as the original Meteo, itself a pioneering system, combining four separate shower functions all set within a recessed unit, encased inside a remote-controlled square of RGB light.

Meteo offers chromotherapy alongside the smooth integration of shower functions including two converging waterfalls; four well-positioned nebulisers (mist sprays), catching the light to provide a dream-like atmosphere; two separately-controlled nozzle sections as well as a single, central, hard water jet. Utilised individually or together, the multiple functions of the Meteo XXL provide a relaxing, massaging shower experience.

Combining functionality with a touch of magic and striving for maximum customer satisfaction with innovation in every detail, these new 2018 collections from antoniolupi fortify the brand’s position on the edge of creativity in bathroom fixtures and fittings design.

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